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batterseapower on Oct 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Uncover how your funds spend money in pol...

This is cool. I wonder how they mapped the PAC organization names + individual contribution employer names to ticker symbols? Maybe fuzzy matching, or just a lot of manual work...

mushufasa on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

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